The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-04-16

Speaking OF The old houses at Y ashing-
ten, I took q good lock- the other day AZ
OgIe TaYioe mansion on Lafayette square
This is the house that Don Cameron
bought last fail for 81 600, and the prOba-
baIIries ara that il viii be IN the fuBura, al
il has been IL the past, one OF the social
Ceu6srs Of a asflingtGu- r IS a big, old
fashioned 5hres-stOTy brick building, with
ridge roof running up between two gaze
Iiks ends al the top. Il has many windows
looking OUT upon Lafayette square, and
the statue Of Gen. Jackson sitting on a
horse which for ten years or more has
been balancing himself on his hind heels
Just across the way, within stone 3
thPaVv OF its front door, is seen the CHASTITY,
baru-iika White House, and the whole a.
seciatious Of i1s neigh bOrhoed ara full or
history IT'S 5hird-sJ0rY windows can look
into those Of the Decatur mansion, now
owned by Gen. Bsale, where the gallant
commodore HEed al the time ne WAS shot
By Barron. Around co the right On the
same sy IaFe is the palace Of the million
airs C0rGOran, where Daniel Webster used
To entertain As secretary of stale, and
where the French minister took posses
sion AZ the time CGrcoran fed TO England
at ths beginning OF the war
HISTORICAL HOUSES NEAR BIZ.
Just below the C0rcsran mansion are
Hay, and next TO them, within 100 yards
Of this Cameron house, rises old St. Johns
church, in which dozen presidents have
w0rs Iipsd, and IN one window OF which
arg the memorial paintings which Presi-
cent Arthur gave to the memory OF his
dead wife a little further on is the rad
brick IN Which Charles Summer lived and
worked, and On the corner between it and
Can 5ren's nev purchase is r00nly old
bEtck which President Madison owned az
gas time OF his death, and II which the
psssless Dolly Madison wore tbs 6urb ans
which cost her 81, 900 year, IN entertain
Tag all along down through the half
dozen administrations following that
which she presided over at the White
House across the way.
It was within plain sight Of this house.
CT Cameron that Barton Key dirted with
Mrs Gic4Ies. Looking from it's windows
eae might have seen the tragedy in which
Key was shot by che irabe husband, and
had ne can6inHsd 70 look, he could have
sssa them carry Key into the old Seward
nan ston which adiCins this, and IN which
Isss than ten years Later the assassination
Of S6ward was aJIsEn pied II this old
house termed plate Of a photographic
ea1asxa throughout all these years, and
the scenes recorded on it could be repro
duGed, what history of our country and
it's great neR il would form! IF It's walls
were photographs how many witty bon
NETS could they give fortht It was built
IN 1923 the year in which Jackson was
first elected president and il has been
from that time TO 5his the residence sf the
TaYioes one Of the richest of the old fam
lies Of the country.
MILLIONAIRE OF THE YEAR 1900
Col Tayfoe, the father Of OgIe TayEoe,
was one Of the millionaires of 1900 He
owned thousands Of acres, and hundreds
Of slaves, and he built the great oc6agsn
mansion, in which President Madison
once lived, and which, during a part OF
Madison's administration, when the
White House was burned, formed the
presto entiaI residence. OgIs Tayloe the
man who built the house, was the in
tira ate and confdant of half Of the great
men Of the country for over forty years.
He roomeG with John Il Dix at college,
aad during the tiuae be WAS at Harvard
he was associated with PRESCOTT, the
historian In 1917 he was private secretary
Co Mr.. Bush, the American minister at
Paris, and it was shortly after he was
married that he took up his residence in
Ehis house, which is now to be occupied
by Senator Cameron During his whole
Ifssfn2s he was a great entertainer, and
Daniel W ebster, Henry Clay, John Quincy
Adams, and Gen. Jackson often sat down
81 his table.
Il was at this house that Gen. Harrison
sailed Just before he was taken with that
sickness which killed hia and it was in
BtiB house that Gen Scott w8s dining one
4ay wksn terrible thunder storm came
Up N which hail fell IN such large stones
as 10 Ee through the heavy plate glass at
the sapissI. 70 stopped the Tayloe dinner
Tor the time and knocked the glass out Of
5sss windows Gen Scott was much
alarmed, but after it was over he drank
kS champagne with great gusto and
called the haiIstoues with which IL waS
cooled celestial ice."-"Carp" IN CIsve-
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